Exhibit Credit Card Logos and Maximize Sales Online
When you go shopping at a retail store or service business the first thing you usually see while walking up to the door is the business hours, and a credit card logo, showing what kinds of credit cards the merchant accepts. Customers expect to see those things. Often consumers will walk away, and the merchant misses out on the sale if they can't see the logos.
The world of e-commerce is not any different! Studies have shown that one of the initial items that an online consumer eyes on a website is a credit card logo image. A logo is highly important, because it tells the buyer a few things. First it informs the potential customer that you have got an internet merchant account, like Authorize.net gateway, and that you take credit cards. Secondly, this logo relays to the customer exactly which credit cards you are accepting. Lastly, seeing the credit card image provides the customer with confidence. They will know you're "a real company" since the logo shows them you have got a merchant account and that you accept credit cards.
In order to have internet success, you should give your customers several different options for payment. At a minimum, your retail merchant account must permit you to take these credit cards: Visa, American Express, Mastercard, and Discover. By taking the previously named credit cards, you'll be on the same playing field as other merchants. In the event you don't showcase the credit card logos on your web page, you can be certain that clients will continue to look until they come to your competitor's web page. If perchance you have existing traffic on your web site, adding a credit card image will increase your business profits.
You'll find different methods to add the credit card logo on your web site. When you set up your retail merchant account, you probably received a welcoming kit in the mail from the processor of your account. This kit will generally contain copies of the credit card images. If you're decent with a scanner, then you can scan these credit card logos, convert them to a gif or ipg format, and publish them to your web page. This process is fairly easy, but it's definitely not the most convenient method to get the logo on your online site.
You'll find multiple different sites on the net that have credit card logos. There are some sites that charge you for the logos, others are absolutely free. Having done research about this issue, one thing we discovered is that there are a lot of lower quality credit card logos on the market. If you have a website that is professional, and you have a credit card logo of poor quality on your home page, what will your customers think?
Since we were hard pressed to find a single great solution, we decided to develop several web pages with the most ideal free credit card logos out there. We have also included credit card logos in various heights, various widths, and various sizes. We're providing all of these credit card logos no cost. We have made the process easy. Come by and visit www.TakeCardsToday.com, and click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than 50 different credit card images are readily available absolutely free. Also included is a fairly simple "cut and paste" html coding making it so you can easily cut the code and paste it right in your html. You will have credit card logos on your home page in just minutes (plus you'll boost your sales). If you don't know how to do coding, we'll even put the images on your online home page for you (at no cost). Don't waste your time, add your complimentary logos on your site right now, and do not allow your merchant account to expire.
This informational article was written by Todd Nelson, Marketing Director for Capital Merchant Solutions, Inc. ( www.TakeCardsToday.com ) Capital Merchant Solutions has been in the internet merchant account business for 10 + years, and offers free merchant accounts and free logos for credit cards to internet companies in addition to retail businesses. The article may be republished on the condition that no changes are made, and this last paragraph is included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.